Minesweeper Redesigned vs Minesweeper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Minesweeper Redesigned
Experience a classic puzzle game with a clean, intuitive interface optimized for touchscreens. Enjoy customizable themes and track your progress with detailed game history. This app offers a seamless and beautiful experience across all device sizes.
- Simple and coherent design
- Touch-optimized controls
- Light and dark themes
- Detailed playing history
- Responsive across multiple screen sizes
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• Simple Design Simplicity creates coherence and consistency throughout the app. With no redundant elements, MINESWEEPER allows you to focus completely to the game itself. • Ready for Touch Different from those for the mouse, apps designed for touch screens require great effort of optimization. In MINESWEEPER, you can tap to reveal a tile, or long press to plant a flag. • Light or Dark Your devices have different colors, so does the app. Light and dark themes allow the app to display harmoniously on different devices. • Playing History History is what you can learn from. You can view, or even share, your gaming statistics at any time. • Multiple Screen Sizes MINESWEEPER just looks beautiful on all screen sizes, ranging from 3.5" to 12.9". It is also well fitted in Slide Over or Split View.
Minesweeper
A classic single-player puzzle game where you uncover a minefield by deducing the location of hidden mines based on numerical clues. Enjoy retro-style gameplay with mobile-friendly features like zooming and panning.
- Single-player puzzle gameplay
- Retro computer version design
- Mobile-friendly zoom and pan
- 3 default difficulty modes
- Customizable minefield settings
- Flagging mode for quick placement
- Local best time tracking
- Global leaderboards
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GAME RULES ---------------- Minesweeper is a single player puzzle computer game. The objective of the game is to clear a rectangular board containing hidden mines without detonating any of them, with help from clues about the number of neighboring mines in each field. Minesweeper Retro is designed closest and similar to the computer version, adding some feature for mobile game play like zooming in/out, panning to move the board. FEATURES ---------------- + 3 default modes: Beginner (10 mines), Intemediate (40 mines), Expert (99 mines). + Custom modes: define your own minefield. Up to 24 rows, 30 columns, 667 mines. + Flag mode: quicker to put flags on cells. + Track local best times. + Compete against other players in the world leaderboards. CREDIT ------------------ + Game developed using LibGDX. + Sound resource: freesound.org. FAN PAGE ------------------ + Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/qastudiosapps + Twitter: https://twitter.com/qastudios
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Minesweeper Redesigned at every 3 weeks against Minesweeper's every 8 months. Minesweeper Redesigned also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for Minesweeper Redesigned against 4.0 for Minesweeper. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 75% and 75% positive.
Minesweeper Redesigned ships an update every 3 weeks, Minesweeper every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Minesweeper Redesigned | Minesweeper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) | 4.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Haoyuan Xia | Quang Duc Vu |
Customer experience
Minesweeper Redesigned
Minesweeper
In-app purchases
Minesweeper Redesigned
No in-app purchases
Minesweeper
No in-app purchases
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